Dying Storm Blue
#111166
A blue that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#111166
RGB
17, 17, 102
OKLCh
25.9% 0.141 271.0°
CIELAB (D50)
11.5, 26.7, -50.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 102.4; on black, Lc 0.0. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
16.21:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.30:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at16.21:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#111166
protanopia
#111166 · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#111166 · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#111166 · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAtlantic Depths at ΔE00 1.615: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Atlantic DepthsΔE00 1.615 · #001166
- Underground StreamΔE00 1.739 · #120a65
- Space ColonisationΔE00 2.096 · #150f5b
- Prussian NightsΔE00 2.222 · #0b085f
- D. Darx BlueΔE00 2.299 · #030764
- 20000 Leagues Under the SeaΔE00 2.363 · #191970
- Ocean AbyssΔE00 2.657 · #221166
- Dark RoyaltyΔE00 2.885 · #02066f
- Major TomΔE00 2.934 · #001177
- ShadowdancerΔE00 2.954 · #111155
- Outer RimΔE00 3.284 · #221177
- Interstellar BlueΔE00 3.372 · #001155
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.